police state

Definitions

A polity whose government exercises strict and repressive control of the people.

derogatory, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“You didn't know⟳ there is […] an active campaign, propaganda and otherwise, […] against all kinds of security procedures on the ground that they are all police state methods and all interfere⟳ with individual rights?”

“[Mo:] But out there in the real world they're bombing abortion clinics... holding Nazi and KKK rallies... trying to quarantine people who might have⟳ AIDS. They're making secret weapons deals to illegally fund so-called "freedom fighters" and calling it "the Lord's work⟳"!! We're living in a Protestant police state […]”

“A gun up in our faces and they never gave a reason⟳ / The writing's on the wall, the politics are fake / Its clear to me we're livin' in a police state […] The prisons are for profit, its society's mistake⟳ / How macabre, we been living in a police state”

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